Category: luckycluckers

Silkie Broody Mama gets 4 new Chicks

We’re nominees for the group hatch-o-holics on Facebook for sure. We’ve recently hatched our third round in the incubator (and have reset round 4 with farm fresh eggs from 3 different farms PLUS ours! Talk about magical mixes emerging from our eggs… Back to the original story that was our…

Black Sex Link

New theory that Melvin and Marvin are Black Sex Links? The Black Sex-Link is an excellent brown egg layer. It was created from a Barred Rock hen and a Rhode Island Red cockerel. This creates a very versatile bird that is a great egg layer, has the temperament of a…

First Hatching Chicks

Part of the fun of a farmyard chick is trying to figure out who the parents are that bring about the chicks characteristics. Here we’ll recap our chicks that hatched and try to match with the parent combo that brought them about. Play along! Aside from DNA testing our best…

Hatching as a hobby…

or a new addiction! You decide. So, the best Christmas Gift this past year was an incubator! It was gifted to our Mother Clucker Sandi, however, she doesn’t have to be in charge of it just yet. Al – the gifter, has become the egg setter extraordinaire! Our first set…

Americana

Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It is because of this genetic combination that our birds are not meant for exhibition. Docile, Friendly…

Australorp

One of Frick’s adopted chicks was York – and Australorp. Here’s more: Our Americana will give you an assortment of colored eggs from turquoise to olive, to light brown. The Americana breed comes from the Araucana and Ameraucana mix and has different color plumage variations. It i The Australorp is…

Frick and her adoptees

We had a hen go broody for several weeks. In order to speed things along with getting her back to “normal” we adopted some chicks from Rural King to get the process going. Here’s Frick and her adopted brood of chicks.

All those nesting boxes, and the ladies lay in the weeds…

We put a pile of tall grasses into the yard for the chickens to peck around in. Little did we know they would choose that as their favorite spot to lay eggs! Just last night, after not finding any green eggs in the boxes, Sandi went to check other spots…

We’ve gotten eggs!

We posted our first egg on instagram on Thursday, May 20th! Since then we’ve gotten almost 2 dozen keepers – and found a bunch of soft shelled/first eggs around the coop and under their roosts. We imagine the first egg is like, whoa, what’s this? Not being sure they just…

Salad time for the Ladies

Mini Melba

Mini Melba – with a much smaller comb and lighter colors! Melba with Mini Melbas and pals!

Friendly Chickens

Having friendly chickens that we can interact with has been a goal of ours. Since they’ve had an extended childhood inside, we’ve gotten a daily opportunity to interact with them. We make sure to sit with them and pet them/handle them so they become comfortable with us. Of course they…

Escape Chickens

Nothing says get a good night sleep like discovering that two chicks (in this case a black asian and a maran) decided to fly and perch atop the fence around the temporary indoor chicken coop. So back in they go. As #motherclucker watches they fly directly at the fence, catch…

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Lady Elaine and the Chicken Diaper experience

Yes, indoor diapers for chickens is a thing. We’ve gotten a few in a variety of sizes to try them out and see what they are like. This #motherclucker has to do more research about putting clothes on chickens. Somehow I don’t think we are doing it right…looks awkward at…

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How much do we weigh?

Melba tops the scale of our chicken flock weighing in at 3# .9 ounces. Compare that to Ebitz at a 1# .3oz, and Little big Bird at 2.0 ounces, and Tiny, our tiniest bantam weighing .7 ounces (smaller than a 1 ounce silver coin). That’s pretty tiny!

Baby Yoda and the ChickyChicks

Frick & Frack – Possible Americanas?

Possible Americanas? We picked up a variety of chicks in our flock of 8 the third time we did a chicken run to Rural King. Not sure of all the varieties, as they get older they look very much like the Americana’s on Hoover’s Website. Thoughts? Our Americana will give…

It was Friday…

That is how most of our most #epicstories begin. It’s February here in Michigan. We’re enjoying raising our flock of chicks, our pack of Golden Retrievers, and our School(s) of Koi. So of course, off to Rural King for supplies…and maybe, just maybe we’ll peek at the chicks. Just kidding,…

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May the Force Be With You

BigBird had the chance to play with a light saber and decided to bring you this message: Because nothing says fun like a chicken holding a light saber!

Photo Sets for the Chicks

Okay, so I’m kind of obsessed with creating sets for the chickens. It’s fun to come up with creative backdrops film of color and detail and then add a chick and see what they are drawn to explore. This does mean I already have thousands of photos of the chicks…